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> cool do you know how to play shogi? I know the rules to play a legal game of Shogi. I can barely beat a person from Japan who has never formally studied Shogi. Chess Grandmaster Larry Kaufman feels …

Antichess is a known win for White: http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/~watkins/LOSING_CHESS/ Despite this, it has only a 51% win percentage for White on Lichess. Just because a game is unbalanced, or eve…

There’s also lishogi.org which plays Shogi, the Japanese version of chess.

Well, the tournament for this line is done. The final results were 4,712 White wins, 3,963 Black wins, and 653 draws. That’s 51/42/7 (White win/lose/draw percentages), compared to 48/45/7 for all game…

Supposedly, it’s playable for Black after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4?! 4. Qe2 Qe7 5. Qxe4 d6 6. d4 dxe5 7. dxe5 Nc6 8. Nc3 Qxe5 9. Qxe5+ Nxe5 10. Bf4 Bd6 11. Bg3 h5 Here’s Stockfish 72-core 70 p…

chess.com already renamed their “world chess.com championship” the “chess.com global championship” so Lichess can name this something more sane like the “Lichess intergalactic championship.”

There is a new Chessable course about the Damiano Petroff...that’s 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4?! so we’re having a tournament about it with some real prizes: https://lichess.org/tournament/RKz3CX…

> lichess.org/@/manitodeplomo/blog/ajedrez-online-vs-ajedrez-presencial-10-aspectos-claves-y-comparativa/BCuN77AP While there are benefits to online chess, especially cost and availability of players …

For those of us who remember the PCA-and-FIDE mess, when we had *two* world chess champions at the same time, blogs like this are a breath of fresh air. I only hope Magnus doesn’t get the notion to cr…

One way to experience OTB with Lichess is to play correspondence chess, and put the positions on a physical chessboard, and analyze the positions with real world pieces.